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Ontario Tory leadership candidate Patrick Brown is having a good week, announcing the endorsement of hockey great Wayne Gretzky and planning a fundraiser with former Quebec premier and federal Progressive Conservative leader Jean Charest. I don’t know how influential Wayne Gretzky is among conservative-minded voters or how thoroughly he’s compared Brown’s policy plans and leadership […]

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For the first time in Canadian history, each of the three main political parties has turned to a woman to run its campaign in this year’s election. The development is being heralded as a major step forward for women as they gain a greater role in political backrooms long dominated by men.

Electricity in Ontario is so expensive because generations of governments have treated it as a tool of politics and for intervening in the economy, none of the major parties contesting the current election is going to stop, and nobody, but nobody, will cut your hydro bill meaningfully.

Gatineau Mayor Marc Bureau is looking on the bright side after the Parti libéral du Quebec swept the Outaouais’ five ridings but failed to form government in a narrow loss to the Parti Québécois in Tuesday’s provincial election. During the campaign, Bureau said he hoped that at least one Outaouais representative would be part of the governing party. But in a scrum Wednesday morning that was posted on the city’s website, Bureau pointed out that four of the five elected are incumbents who are familiar with Gatineau’s wish list: expansion of the Rapibus, revitalization of downtown, the Destination Gatineau project and a new library.

It is axiomatic that a separatist government in Quebec City is bad for Canada. Indeed for anglophones, especially those of us who live west of the Ottawa River, there’s more than a whiff of apocalyptic deja vu in the Parti Quebecois’ return.

Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois spoke of the “beautiful love story that I have with the Outaouais” Friday during her only visit to the region of this election campaign. Marois served as minister responsible for the region in René Lévesque’s cabinet, though she represented the Quebec City electoral district of La Peltrie at the time. However, she said Friday, the next PQ minister for the Outaouais will actually come from the region.

With the polls showing a softening of support for Premier Jean Charest’s Liberals, the leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec made a direct pitch to Outaouais voters Sunday to give his upstart party a chance and push it into power.

The former leader of the federal Bloc Québécois has cancelled a stop in Gatineau meant to show support for the five Outaouais-region candidates of the provincial Parti Québécois prior to the Sept. 4 Quebec election.

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